📰 Mendelssohn: Reason and Feeling: A New Reading of Philosophy
Discover Mendelssohn's philosophy: a synthesis of reason and feeling. Learn about the concept of perfection and the role of aesthetics in ethics. Read and deepen your knowledge of the Enlightenment!
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"Lower Palaeolithic Tools of Potency: Handaxes Shaped around Fossils and Other Extraordinary Features at Sakhnin Valley, Israel
Exceptional Lower Palaeolithic handaxes were discovered at a newly identified extensive Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean landscape in Sakhnin Valley, Israel. Sakhnin Valley exhibits rich surface concentrations of lithic artefacts, primarily comprising handaxes, cores and flakes, alongside pristine flint nodules and numerous geodes. Similar items were identified at subsurface locations, and future excavations are expected to uncover in situ archaeological deposits. The handaxes reported here are part of a larger collection of hundreds of tools bearing typical Levantine Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean characteristics. What makes these handaxes particularly noteworthy is that they were shaped around fossil imprints or other geological features embedded in the selected flint nodules. While thousands of handaxes are documented from Lower Old World Palaeolithic sites, fossil-bearing handaxes are extremely rare and garner special attention. This collection of unique bifaces provides valuable insight into their makers’ technological and aesthetic preferences, worldviews and relationship with stone. We propose that these handaxes served as tools and mediators between humans and the cosmos, conceived as objects of potency enhanced by the primeval fossil imprints and unique geological features within the stone. The richly embellished rocky landscape of Sakhnin Valley, particularly with its abundant geodes, may have encouraged early humans to express their profound and extraordinary relationships with the cosmos via stones."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03344355.2026.2637187
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"Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? New study offers clues
Quartz crystals are difficult to knap due to their small size, macro-crystalline structure, and hardness. Despite these drawbacks, Clovis people used quartz crystals to make points and other tools. These artifacts have been recovered in a variety of site contexts. This study compares Clovis points made of quartz crystals to Clovis points made of other toolstones. We use scaling and geometric morphometric analyses to compare the dimensions and outline shapes of these two groups of Clovis points. Our results show that quartz crystal Clovis points, while generally smaller, are similar to Clovis points made from other toolstones. We propose that quartz crystals were used by Clovis people for several reasons including the knappable and durable nature of the material, as well as for the unique properties of quartz crystals including translucency and triboluminescence. These reasons are not necessarily mutually exclusive and could have together attracted Clovis people to quartz crystals."
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-clovis-toolmakers-difficult-quartz-crystal.html
Quartz crystals are difficult to knap due to size, hardness, and crystalline structure, making them a "low-quality" raw material. However, the Clovis people of North America sometimes made points and other tools from this material despite its drawbacks. To determine whether the quartz crystal points of the Clovis were functionally comparable to those made from higher-quality toolstones, Dr. Briggs Buchanan and his colleagues conducted scaling and geometric morphometric analyses on Clovis crystal points. The study is published in Lithic Technology.
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Reading medieval romances with philosophical theory from Leibniz to Kant, Gadamer, Latour & others, James & Peggy Knapp present a study on 6 core works of #MedievalLiterature and the relation between #aesthetics & reality within them
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